Topic: External Users Unable to Access HTTP

[Dave Wilson]

Okay, I thought maybe I would reword my subject header to try attract some attention to this issue.  Things have changed but nothing is new.

I have removed my original drive and replaced it with a new one.  I installed E-Smith fresh and dumped the backup back on.  Things are still the same as before.  External users can't access web pages but internal users can.

At least, I trhink all internal users can.  I'm the only one internally so I can't be totally sure.  The things is, external users can access everything else.  E-Mail, webmail, FTP, Telnet all work for external users.  But when they try to connect to a web site they get a server not found error.  This tells me that it's not a router issue (I have a Linksys 4 port Cable/DSL router) but that it's a server issue.

I was getting the FTP and POP3 slow down problem so I was trying out the fix by Charles (http://www.e-smith.org/bugs/index.php3?op=showBug&bugID=67).  The fix never helped but I think my currently problem developed while I was messing with the fix.  How can I undo what I might have done when trying to perform the actions in Charle's fix?

Thanks.

[Jon Blakely]

To undo the DHCP/resolver patch

# drop the external link - note therefore that you can't perform the
# fix remotely using this procedure

  /sbin/ifdown eth1

# Replace /etc/resolv.conf with the correct contents

  /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/resolv.conf

# Undo patch
 mv  /sbin/ifup.old /sbin/ifup

#answer y to the overwrite message

# Now bring the external interface back up
  /sbin/ifup eth1

but I do not think this is your problem
Have you tried restarting httpd

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

Jon

[Dr_pepper_X]

I would also like to suggest that if you have a hig speed connection (cable/dsl) some of the providers block incoming traffic to pot 80 you may need to change your port to something like 8080.  Do a search on this and you should find the instruction on how to change the port.

[Dave Wilson]

Hey there, thanks for the thoughts.

Jon, you are correct, my problem has nothing to do with that acpect of things.  I renamed the resolve.conf file and when I rebooted the server rebuilt it to what I assume would be it's default configuration.  Nothing changed so it must be something else.

Dr. P, I'm being hosted through a company that allows the use of servers so that shouldn't be roblem but I will look into since I had an issue with them a few weeks ago.

Like I say, I can access the pages on my local network so I know that the service is up and running.  Now that I've looked into every other option I can think of I now think that it might be my provider.

Thanks for the help.  Bye for now.